Experience & Capabilities

Mash-up of QA/test engineer, creative technologist, devops-lite, process/systems czar with years as an award-winning art/creative director and at the helm of a print & digital production studio. The experience (and wisdom) of 20+ years in a fluid, small-agency environment, I’m a relentless, meticulous, curious and competent problem-solving technology fanatic committed to the making of great stuff.

Graphic Design/Art Direction

My origin is as a designer, which steered me toward advertising, an industry I’ve worked in for over 20 years. The work directly below represents my time as an art director and creative director, as well as freelance projects, both print and digital.

I’ve coordinated the work of internal, off-site, and contract developers and animators to produce and QA countless HTML emails and scores of Flash display ads, then subsequently managed the transition to HTML5 display when Flash support was discontinued—and QA’d those, too. I’m a very hands-on troubleshooting partner and love jumping into code when the opportunity arises.

In a nutshell, when needed, I step up. If I don’t already know how to do it, I learn — even if that means learning the ins and outs of managing an entire Linux-based marketing intelligence platform when I had to, or taking over dev duties and authoring and/or maintaining content for websites and emails myself.

Print/Direct Mail/Digital Marketing Production

With years of experience as a working manager of a fast-paced production studio, I know my way around specs, mechs, and comps — as well as production artists — who are a breed unto themselves. I’ve managed internal resources and external contractors, maintaining a tight grip on quality control, as the bi-directional conduit in and out of the production studio. As is often the case of production gurus, I’ve also anchored the creation, documentation, maintenance and policing of agency workflows and processes.

QA/PM/Print Production work samples

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Who I am.

I’m a person who likes to wear a lot of hats, both literally and figuratively.

I get things done. I’d rather learn how to do it myself than wait for someone else to do it.

I love to make things. But I think I might love making things better even more.

Some have joked that I have a singular talent for making simple things complex. Or maybe they weren’t joking :-/ Regardless, I can’t really deny it. I’m driven by my curiosity and fascination for systems, how even seemingly simple things can be deconstructed, examined, and re-assembled—made better through understanding and improving the constituent parts.

I’ll never stop making things, and trying to make things better. It’s just who I am.